Constance Lever-Tracy (socl.n.ss@psy1.ssn.flinders.edu.au)
Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:57:39 +0000
>>MOST TIRESOME CHARACTER: Zoe looks great, but grates on the nerves. What
>>Spike sees in her, I'll never know.
>I think the reason Zoe was, ahem, "not one of our favourites" was that she
>appeared largely as a Lynda-hating Spike hunter, and we saw little else of
>her (what did she do - in the restaurant she was looking at something and
>said "I think I've narrowed it down to page ( or was it chapter?) five" -
>was she making a joke about her pick from the menu, or was she looking at
>some papers of her own - could she _possibly_ be some type of editor
>herself? (I doubt it, personally) - I'd appreciate any opinions on what
>this line was refering to)). Also, the shortness of series three, and the
>place of Zoe's episodes as the "bookends" of the series, creating a reason
>for the action to begin and end where it did, meant that we saw her "appear,
>disappear, then reappear and disappear" within the 6 weeks (or in Australia
>~9 days) of the series, with dramatic results, but never really getting any
>insight into her character - The rather obvious status of Zoe as "not up to
>Lynda standard" made the character rather weak - I mean, she was obviously a
>bit dense (To Spike: "What have I done to your arm?!"), but surely Spike
>would have seen something in her.
You seem to have missed the point of Zoe, what appealed to Spike was
the fact that she didn't make him think and wasn't Lynda, alkthgouth
with tthat hair she did have some resembelance. As he says
"she's easy to be with" after all the tennion fights etc with Lynda
he was burnt out and I suspect if you remove the 80's clothing she
probably looked good in a bikini, remember all Spike's other
girlfriends.
Natacha
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